Standards and Variation in Urban Speech: Examples from Lowland Scots (Varieties of English Around the World) - Hardcover

Macaulay, Ronald K.S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1556197179 ISBN 13: 9781556197178

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1997

Synopsis

Standards and Variation in Urban Speech is an examination and exploration of the aims and methods of sociolinguistic investigation, based on studies of Scottish urban speech. It criticially examines the implications of the notions ‘vernacular’, ‘standard language’, ‘Received Pronunciation’, ‘social class’, and ‘linguistic insecurity’. Through a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods using examples from comedians’ jokes, dialect poetry, formal and informal interviews, and personal narratives, the work illustrates the actual norms that speakers exemplify in various ways.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1556197179
• ISBN 13: 9781556197178
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 211